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Title: An Ocean Apart by Robin Pilcher, Samantha Eggars, Samantha Eggar ISBN: 1-59040-237-5 Publisher: Phoenix Audio Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 15 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (36 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Ocean Apart
Comment: I really enjoyed the book! I got into it more after the first few chapters. Pilcher sets his the stage for the story before really taking off with the main theme, so you need to be little bit patient as he sets the tone. Emotions are expressed VERY well as you move through the story, and you can feel for the characters and their happenings throughout the book. As I read, I could form pictures in my mind of the background scenes and the characters which were written with wonderful descriptions and scenes.
Rating: 3
Summary: Enjoyable but unrealistic
Comment: I, too, am a big fan of Rosamunde Pilcher and was curious to see what a book by her son would be like. Overall, I found it to be an enjoyable, quick read, but the story had some unrealistic elements that I found hard to swallow. Would that we all, for example, when losing a spouse, could just abandon our kids and our aged parents in their mansion in Scotland and go off to the States. Does anyone but me find this behavior to be appallingly selfish? He runs off and leaves his poor father in the hands of unscrupulous colleagues who eventually cause him to have a stroke and die, for heaven's sake! I found the way that things worked out for David in the U.S. to be unlikely, as well. He ends up in a town that seems to be filled with saintly, wonderful human beings. He's in the US on a visitor visa and a complete stranger to everyone but manages to find a job with a snap of his fingers due to the kind nature of the (of course) wonderful guy who runs the agency. When David's new employer, Jennifer, gets sick by eating bad mussels (after commenting that they tasted funny but yet she still managed to suck up every one--wouldn't most of us have stopped eating by that point?), a doctor actually makes a HOUSE CALL! (This might still be possible in a small village in Scotland, Mr. Pilcher, but hardly ever in the US! That's why we have emergency rooms, and then you'd have to fight with your HMO to pay for it.) He takes the dog, Dodie, everywhere he goes, even on his first day on the job, and no one seems to object to this. He continually leaves the dog in the car, even on hot days, something that is considered dog abuse in the U.S. The dog has two teeth left and horrible halitosis, and this seems to be accepted. In the US, Mr. Pilcher, most responsible dog owners take care of their animals' dental hygiene! These latter items point out Mr. Pilcher's unfamiliarity with American habits and customs. I know that in Europe many people, for example, take their dogs to restaurants, but not here, and never, never to work on the first day of a job!!! These may seem like nit-picky things, but I kept pausing in my reading to say, "oh, come ON, now." And of course, the minute Jennifer and her son arrive in London and the son turns on the TV, there David is giving a speech in the House of Lords,and they are miraculously reunited! I know it is unfair to compare the son to the mother, but one of Mrs. Pilcher's strengths is the complete believability of her novels and the fact that her characters, while lovable, are by no means perfect. Mr. Pilcher's novel is a fairy tale, and if accepted on that basis is a nice escapist read for a summer day.
Rating: 1
Summary: What a dreary book
Comment: On second reading, I found this book to be awful. The characters are cardboard cut-outs made to fit different stage sets Mr. Pilcher has devised. There may be people like these characters in the real world, but I don't want to meet most of them. The main character is a feeble fool who neglects his elderly parents and his children, and causes the premature death of his father, whilst pandering to the neglected child of a foolish woman thousands of miles away. It's ridiculous. Save your money, get it from the library. Sorry, Amazon.
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Title: Starting Over by Robin Pilcher ISBN: 0312983417 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 20 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Risk Worth Taking by Robin Pilcher ISBN: 031227002X Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Another View by Rosamunde Pilcher ISBN: 0312961316 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The End Of Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher ISBN: 0312961286 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Empty House by Rosamunde Pilcher ISBN: 0312961278 Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks Pub. Date: 15 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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